Re: The Code Catacombs submission page should have a license field.

Here in the USA, any code posted there has an implicit copyright to the owner, who may or may not have granted a public-use license. If they haven't explicitly provided a license for use, write them and ask permission. Now was that so hard?

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Re^2: The Code Catacombs submission page should have a license field. by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 07, 2004 at 18:20 UTC
Now was that so hard? Yes it was. Besides being dicey, you'd have to hold on to the communication as legal proof of the permission which in this case could possibly be the chatterbox messaging; html? screenshot? both so easily forged it's not even worth talking about. And it's not even possible to get that far all the time--there are lots of monks on permanent or semi-permanent sabbatical. A drop down (with a note box too?) for selecting the license you want attached to your code is a really good idea. Update: you could also have your default license in your user prefs which would automatically attach to snippets and CC submissions.	[reply]
Re^2: The Code Catacombs submission page should have a license field. by sintadil (Pilgrim) on Sep 07, 2004 at 17:42 UTC
Let me re-explain the point of my post. If people were required to put a license on all code that they post, I wouldn't need to do that. And there's also the case of people who post code but who don't visit the site frequently, so you get to wait a long time for an answer.	[reply]